THE NUMBERS GAME: After being named in the Premier League’s Team of the Year for four successive seasons, the simple stuff suddenly seems to be posing problems for De Gea.

THE NUMBERS GAME - KIERAN GILL: A cold wet Wednesday night in Stoke has long been the benchmark when it came to the question of whether Lionel Messi could deliver in England.

THE NUMBERS GAME - KIERAN GILL: Signed from Napoli for £57m, Jorginho became the poster boy for 'Sarri-ball'. But what happens to the midfielder now his mentor has left Chelsea?

THE NUMBERS GAME - KIERAN GILL: Even David de Gea was guilty of making mistakes during a disastrous season for Manchester United. So should the Spaniard stay for next season?

KIERAN GILL: 'It has been a long journey to get here,' said Danny Drinkwater on the day he signed for Chelsea in 2017, 'but I am very happy and looking forward to helping the club win more trophies'.

THE NUMBERS GAME - KIERAN GILL: The last time West Ham had a striker who scored 20-or-more goals, Eminem's Just Lose It was topping the charts and the Apple iPhone did not exist.

THE NUMBERS GAME - KIERAN GILL: Next time you raise an eyebrow at someone showing their support by wearing a full kit, spare a thought for how much it set them back to look like that.

Former Tory Chief Whip Mark Harper (pictured) claimed sticking to the October 31 date for Britain to leave the EU would only boost Nigel Farage when it failed to materialise.

Questions had been raised over what Mrs May would do after relinquishing Downing Street. But during a muted Prime Minister's Questions today she confirmed that she intended to remain an MP.

Scott's Fish and Chips, on the A64 at Bilborough near York has become a big hit with Chinese tourists who visit in their coachloads every week hungry for a taste of classic British food.

The new Orwell Award, named after former pupil George Orwell, will offer a dozen boys from non-selective state schools the chance to study at Eton College (pictured).

The frontrunner to become the UK's next Prime Minister will promote Liz Truss in an attempt to confront his 'women problem', allies believe. Pictured: Boris Johnson and Liz Truss.

The Labour Party risked ridicule today after it attacked Boris Johnson for being 'scruffy' despite Jeremy Corbyn's own history of being criticised over his own appearance.

The incoming premier is said to have loudly told Downing Street staff the monarch said 'I don't know why anyone would want the job' during official audience, as he entered No 10 for the first time.

The ex-PM and his wife Samantha, 48, have been given permission to build a games room to house a snooker table in the garden of their retreat in the pretty village of Trebetherick, Cornwall

Enam Ali, 58, was arrested after police raided a restaurant in Surrey whose A-list diners have included Johnny Depp and Pierce Brosnan. It is understood he has been released under investigation.

Love Island forgot one of the golden rules of television, and life in fact. Never tell the British public who to like - who they should like or even who they do like - and certainly not who to vote for.

Billionaire Vladimir Chernukhin, 51, of Fitzrovia, central London, is alleged to have lied in High Court proceedings by stating he was the beneficial owner of Compas View Ltd.

The Prime Minister is said to have hired Isaac Levido as his director of politics and campaigning. He was a former deputy to Mr Crosby, who oversaw David Cameron's win four years ago.

'Look at me, I'm different,' special adviser to Prime Minister Boris Johnson Cummings appears to be saying with his body language, writes Dan Hodges.

The Conservatives could lose more than half the constituencies they need to defend against the resurgent Liberal Democrats.

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: David Cameron isn't the only one who has been coining it since leaving Downing Street. So, too, has his former Tory Party chair Andrew Feldman.

The former Prime Minister, 52, had allowed 15-year-old Nancy to invite school friends to the family's property in Cornwall. But he threw them out when they partied until 3am and invited boys over.

Researchers from the University of Nottingham and British Geological Survey analysed samples taken from Bowland in Lancashire to make the finding.

David Cameron's Conservative Party officials tried to block Jacob Rees-Mogg from entering Parliament at the 2010 Election because he was too white and 'posh.'

John Bercow is regarded by many as a reforming Speaker - but his time in the famous green chair has also been blighted by controversy over expenses, bullying and Brexit.

For the past three years Mr Cameron has been in self-imposed purdah, writes RICHARD KAY. The man who triggered the EU referendum has been desperate not to be seen as a back-seat driver.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson wrote on a private cabinet paper that former leader, Oxford-educated David Cameron was a 'girly swot'.

David Cameron is finally preparing to unleash his potentially explosive autobiography this weekend.

Charlie asked on the flagship BBC show whether he could sue David Cameron for for causing 'mental distress' by sparking the debacle.

MPs voted to legalise gay marriage in February 2013 following a bill introduced by the former Prime Minister, but fewer than half of Conservative MPs backed Mr Cameron on the issue.

SIMON WALTERS: When I interviewed David Cameron a few days before the 2015 election, I was taken aback (pictured with Boris Johnson in 2015).

Mr Cameron admits getting 'off his head' on dope when he was a schoolboy at Eton in his forthcoming memoir. He refused to answer questions on whether he had ever taken cocaine.

The incendiary promise - which would see a former Prime Minister actively working against his own party - comes amid furious backlash over the publication of Cameron's explosive memoirs.

MATTHEW GOODWIN: To many hard-working and patriotic Brits, Cameron epitomises a smug, wealthy and distant liberal caste.

In his new book, serialised in The Times, the former Prime Minister describes Heatherdown Preparatory School in Berkshire as an austere establishment - even by the standards of the time.

Mr Cameron wrote in his newly-published autobiography that the Nancy, now 15, was responding to a pupil at a school fair who had said 'f*** you' when she said she was backing Remain.

The ex-prime minister revealed that his former chancellor and right-hand man had urged him 'destroy their credibility' as leaders of the Leave campaign, saying they were 'killing' his leadership.

David and Samantha Cameron (pictured together in 1995) first met when the young Samantha Sheffield was just 17 and grew close on a family holiday organised by Mr Cameron's father in Italy.

The Guardian was today branded 'inhumane' after claiming David Cameron's wealth and power meant he only suffered 'privileged pain' when his disabled son Ivan died in 2009.

The European Commission chief tried to reassure the outgoing Mr Cameron at a Brussels summit just days after the EU referendum result in 2016, according to the ex-PM's new memoirs.

DOMINIC LAWSON: Cameron's attempt to mix support for EU membership with the rhetoric of untrammelled national self-determination was fundamentally dishonest.

Michael Gove assured the then-PM that he would 'make one speech and that's it' after he came out in favour of Brexit, Mr Cameron (pictured in an ITV interview today) has revealed.

Janet Street-Porter, 72, revealed on Loose Women that former Prime Minister David Cameron had asked her for writing advice at a party, after struggling to find his 'voice', while writing his memoirs.

Former Prime Minister David Cameron said he was left 'scratching his head' by some of the rulings that John Bercow (pictured) made as Speaker of the Commons.

Soon after David Cameron's intervention, the Queen told a well-wisher near Balmoral that she hoped 'people would think very carefully about the future'.

The extraordinary claim about Mr Cameron's Oxford student days emerged in a book by Lord Ashcroft and Isabel Oakeshott on the eve of the Conservative conference in 2015.

The Brexit row severed a close friendship between the Gove and Cameron families which extended well beyond politics and saw the two families share the school run and holiday together.

David Cameron has urged Boris Johnson to forgive the 21 Remainer rebels he stripped of the Tory whip as the former PM failed to guarantee he will vote Conservative if there is a No Deal Brexit.

David Cameron, 52, was left red faced after he accidentally swore while on This Morning today. While discussing the Brexit bus, he claimed he'd 's**t at the TV', leaving the hosts in hysterics.